No. CS/SB 52
Filed under Occupational.
Security Services at Places of Worship; Providing an exemption from licensure requirements for certain volunteers who provide armed security services for places of worship, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA person who volunteers, without pay, to provide armed security at a church, mosque, synagogue, or other place of worship is now added to the list of people Florida's private-security licensing chapter does not cover.
This is a full exemption from the chapter, not from just one rule within it; the volunteer needs no license under this chapter to provide armed security at the place of worship.
The exemption's only stated conditions are that the work be unpaid and at a place of worship; the new subsection itself sets no training, vetting, age, or experience standard for the volunteer.
AIA person is added to the list of people this chapter's private-security licensing requirements do not cover, if they provide armed security services at a place of worship on a voluntary, unpaid basis.
AIThe new exemption is added under the statute's own 'Inapplicability of this chapter' heading, meaning it removes this category of volunteer entirely from chapter 493's requirements, not just from one specific rule within it.